Place Of Birth Stanhope Street, Strand, London, England
Place Of Death Cawnpore, India
Buried/Location Ashes Old British Cemetery, Cawnpore (Kanpur), Uttar Pradesh, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 27 April 1858
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented
Memorials
P Statue at St Swithun's Church, Sandy, Bedfordshire
P Statue at Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital, London
Named on family headstone at Deans Grange Cemetery, D·n Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Memorial to HMS 'Shannon', Deans Grange, Co. Dublin, Ireland
P Lord Nelson Public House renamed 'The Sir William Peel' in September 2002, Sandy, Bedfordshire
White marble statue at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India
P Plaque on bench on the High Street, Sandy, Bedfordshire
P Named on HMS Shannon memorial, Clarence Esplanade, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire
By The Way…
Old British Cemetery, Cawnpore, walls and gate still exist, majority of headstones including Peel's have been removed
Son of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister
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National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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Serving with a gun crew from H.M.S. Diamond Captain Peel picked up a live shell from the newly arrived powder, before it could be stored and threw the live shell over the parapet just as it exploded. The next year led an assault on the redan.
